Pano Lets You Take Panoramic Shots with an iPhone

Pano makes taking panoramic shots incredibly easy. The interface is simple to use and gives you a semi-transparent guide overlay that helps you make sure your shots are lined up.

If you've always wanted the ability to take broad panoramic shots using your iPhone, there's no shortage of apps that can help, but one of the most frequently used is Pano, a $2.99 app in the iTunes App Store that makes taking panoramic shots incredibly easy. The interface is simple to use and gives you a semi-transparent guide overlay that helps you make sure your shots are lined up. Pano even lets you take panoramic shots of up to 360-degrees, so you can capture everything around you and share with your friends.

Pano is probably the definitive panorama photo app for the iPhone. While there are tons of apps that will help you create panoramas using your iPhone camera, Pano is one of the easiest to use and most feature rich. The app will output panoramic photos with resolutions of up to 6800-pixels by 800-pixels, and will do full 360-degree images.

The app guides you through the process of creating your panorama with a menu at the bottom that helps you line up your shots with semi-transparent borders between images. Using the guide, it's easy to make sure that you never wind up with gaps or overlap between your photos. The app also allows you to stop taking a panorama and resume later if you have to take a call or answer a text, for example - as long as you don't move from your starting point, the app will help you line up where your last shot was so you can start the next one.

Once you've finished taking your individual shots, the app will merge them all together into one large panoramic view and save it to your film roll. The app can even help you with some automatic alignment and color-correction tools to make your panorama look cleaner.

Pano is available now in the iTunes App Store, and even though it'll set you back $2.99, the app has been so highly rated and regarded that it's likely worth the three dollars if you think you'll take a lot of panoramic photos. You'll need an iPhone or iPod Touch (with camera) running iOS 3.1 or later in order to use the app.